Dr. V. Arunachalam

Membership in Professional bodies

Life Membership in Indian Academy of Horticultural Sciences

Life Membership in Indian Society of Plantation Crops

Life Membership in Indian Society of Ornamental Horticulture 

Honours & Awards

Elected Fellow of National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS) Chennai in Agricultural & Forestry Sciences during 2023

ICAR Award during 2002 for Team research for the biennium 1999-2000 for work on improvement of coconut germplasm awarded to VA Parthasarathy, PM Kumaran, MJ Ratnambal, A Karun, V Niral, V Arunachalam, A Upadhyay

Publications

Riju, A., Chandrasekar, A., and Arunachalam, V. (2007). Mining for single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions in expressed sequence tag libraries of oil palm. Bioinformation, 2(4), 128. https://doi.org/10.6026/97320630002128

Premkrishnan, B.V. and Arunachalam, V. (2012) In Silico RAPD Priming Sites in Expressed Sequences and iSCAR Markers for Oil Palm. Comparative and Functional Genomics. Now International Journal of Genomics. Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 913709, 5 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/913709

Murugesan, P., Rani, K. M., D Ramajayam, K. S. K., Mathur, R., Ravichandran, G., Kumar, P. N., and Arunachalam, V. (2015). Genetic diversity of vegetative and bunch traits of African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) germplasm in India. Indian J. Agric. Sci, 85, 892-895. https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/50114

Premkrishnan, B.V. and Arunachalam, V. (2016) Database of predicted SCAR markers in five fruit and three vegetable crops. J Genet. 95(1):  171-175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-016-0620-7

Vaingankar, JD, Maruthadurai R, Sellaperumal, C, Dhargalkar, SD, Harihar, S, and Arunachalam, V. (2018) Tapping the potential of vegetable amaranth genotype to trap the root knot nematode pest. Scientia Horticulturae. 230:18-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2017.10.037

Paramesh, V., Arunachalam, V., Nikkhah, A., Das, B., Ghnimi, S. 2018. Optimization of energy consumption and environmental impacts of arecanut production through coupled data envelopment analysis and life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 203: 674-684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.263

Das, B., Nair, B., Arunachalam, V., Reddy, K. V., Venkatesh, P., Chakraborty, D., and Desai, S. (2020). Comparative evaluation of linear and nonlinear weather-based models for coconut yield prediction in the west coast of India. International Journal of Biometeorology, 64:1111-1123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01884-2

Arunachalam, V., Fernandes, C.M., and Salgaonkar, D. C. (2020). Quick method to quantify the potassium and sodium content variation in leaves of banana varieties. Analytical Sciences. 36(10): 255-1260. https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.20P096

Arunachalam, V., Salgaonkar, D. C., Devidas, S. S., and Das, B. (2024). Estimation of foliar glucose content of areca palm by a smartphone app and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy based multivariate modeling. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 130: 103643 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vibspec.2023.103643

Arunachalam, V., Paramesh, V., Salgaonkar, D.C. (2025) Economic, energy budgeting and environmental impact assessment of coconut-based cropping system in the west coast of India. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 9 (2025): 100289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100289

Arunachalam, V., Devidas, S.S. and Paramesha, V. Global meta-analysis of banana grown under high density, natural and artificial shade. Proc.Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43538-025-00534-8